About Avenales Ranch
Avenales Ranch is named for the avenales — Spanish for 'wild oat fields,' the native annual grasses that carpeted California's hillsides in the pre-colonial era and persist along unplowed hillsides and road margins throughout the Paso Robles wine country. The estate's Spanish plant-naming tradition honors the wild landscape that the vineyards occupy, declaring the estate as part of a landscape rather than a departure from it.
The San Miguel District estate is at the northern end of the Paso Robles appellation, where the warmer, drier conditions and calcareous soils produce Grenache and Syrah of concentrated, generous character. The wild oat grasses remain between the vine rows as cover crops, the avenales that gave the ranch its name still present in the farming.
The daily walk-in experience is dog-friendly, picnic-welcoming, and family-hospitable.